Salamah
Bergamot opens cool, waxy, almost lemon-peel green, a quiet citrus flash that exists mainly to usher in the incense duo.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Musky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cool, waxy, almost lemon-peel green, a quiet citrus flash that exists mainly to usher in the incense duo. Frankincense and olibanum merge into one translucent resin that smells of cold pine needles, peppered lemon rind and church-pew cedar; the white musk base sheathes the resin in a laundered-linen haze, softening smoke into skin-clean sweetness. Wear is linear: the citrus retreats within minutes, leaving a steady incense-musk glow that stays close but persists for eight hours. Office-safe, year-round, best where subtle smoke reads as polished rather than pious.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
